#brainstem

https://www.europesays.com/us/1305/ Chronic Pain Linked to Neuron Overactivity in the Brainstem #BrainResearch #brainstem #ChronicPain #Health #HebrewUniversityOfJerusalem #neurobiology #Neurology #Neuroscience #pain #UnitedStates #UnitedStates #US

Slow amplitude fluctuations in sounds, critical for #SpeechRecognition, seem poorly represented in the #brainstem. This study shows that overlooked intricacies of #SpikeTiming represent these fluctuations, reconciling low-level neural processing with #perception @plosbiology.org https://plos.io/3FJ4adI

https://www.europesays.com/uk/69464/ Brain-Body Links in Emotion and Health #BrainResearch #brainstem #emotion #Health #neurobiology #Neuroscience #NINS #Psychology #UK #UnitedKingdom

MRI scans reveal the damage long Covid does to your brain | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/long-covid-brain-scans-symptoms-b2625184.html

#LongCovid
#Brain
#BrainDamage
#MRI
#7TScanners
#7TeslaScanners
#Brainstem
#ImmuneResponse
#ImmuneSystem
#CambridgeUni
#Neuroinflammation

Master regulator of inflammation found — and it's in the brain stem
https://www.livescience.com/health/immune-system/master-regulator-of-inflammation-found-and-its-in-the-brain-stem
#physiology #inflammation #BrainStem #VagusNerve

Finding a Master Immune System Controller

'In a series of groundbreaking, elegant experiments ... a team led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Charles Zuker has found that one controller of the immune system actually lies elsewhere—in the brain. The researchers showed that a group of nerve cells in the brainstem acts like a master controller or rheostat, sending and receiving signals from vagal neurons in the body to either boost inflammation or dial it down. '
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'The first big question for Zuker’s group, therefore, was whether the brain really does respond to signals from the immune system. To find out, his team injected mice with a known immune stimulant, lipopolysaccharide, then searched the mouse brain to see if any specific areas were being activated by the signal. The quest was like “looking for a needle in a haystack,” says Medzhitov. But it worked. The researchers pinpointed an area of the brainstem called the caudal nucleus of the solitary tract. That was “extraordinarily exciting,” recalls Hao Jin, a postdoctoral fellow in Zuker’s lab who led these studies. Previous work by Zuker’s team had shown that this area of the brain received other body-brain signals up the vagus nerve highway. '

https://www.hhmi.org/news/finding-master-immune-system-controller

#immunology #neuroscience
#inflammation #VagusNerve #brainstem

Newly discovered group of #neurons in the #brainstem which receives information directly from the basal ganglia and controls the right-left circuit,” Eventually, this discovery may be able to help people suffering from #Parkinson’s disease.
#Neuroscience # Brain #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2024/02/ns02222401.html

"Together, these findings suggest that #seizure activity in a focal subregion of the #amygdala is sufficient to suppress breathing and air hunger for prolonged periods of time in the #postictal period, likely via #brainstem and insula sites involved in #chemosensation and #interoception."

https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/172423

New insights into how hippocampal #MemoryFormation & recall is controlled by a disinhibition-based mechanism, supported by #hippocampal #somatostatin interneurons & their pontine #brainstem inputs from the #NucleusIncertus #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3NkleaD

“Welcome to the club! #Brainstem abnormalities now join the list of other issues ( #EBVReactivation, #CPET abnormalities, small fiber #neuropathy, #dysautonomia, low #cortisol, symptoms, etc.) that are linking #MECFS and #LongCovid together ever more tightly.”

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #pwME #Fibromyalgia #pwFM #

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/04/20/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-long-covid-brainstem/

Hi Mastodon! Another migrating neurobiologist here - I’m a sensory neuroscience postdoc at Cornell University working on optimizing functional imaging of #brainstem circuits using #multiphoton #microscopy in awake, behaving mice.
Looking forward to the new chapter here!

Referenced link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-brain-stem-treatments-obesity.html
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RT by @physorg_com: Mapping #brainstem's control of eating could lead to better treatments for obesity @umich https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-022-00606-9 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-brain-stem-treatments-obesity.html

Auditory Brainstem Implants: The Other Bionic Hearing Device - You might have heard of the cochlear implant. It’s an electronic device also refer... - https://hackaday.com/2022/05/26/auditory-brainstem-implants-the-other-bionic-hearing-device/ #auditorybrainstemimplant #cochlearimplant #medicalhacks #originalart #brainstem #interest #implant #medical #brain